Re: [Xen-users] How to share data between guest domains

[Joost Roeleveld <joost@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 18 March 2006 20:17, Rene Kogels wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> Thanks for your reply.

You're welcome

> When you use NFS, does this imply you are using your domain0 for the
> NFS-daemon or do you use a dedicated guest domain?

I use both, the 3 I mentioned in my previous email are exported by domain0, 
but I also have a guest domain sharing some files using NFS and Samba.

Don't forget to run 'portmap' in the guest domains as well or mounting will 
take a long time and set it to use TCP for the connection rather then UDP, as 
mentioned by others.

> Thanks,
> Rene
>
> On Sat, 2006-03-18 at 20:04 +0000, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Saturday 18 March 2006 19:33, Rene wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > What do you think is the best way to share data between guest domains?
> > > Would that be something like NFS?
> >
> > I have seen some mails about a XenFS-like filesystem to be in development
> > allowing quick and efficient sharing of data.
> > But till that comes along, something like NFS, SCP, FTP,... or anything
> > else that you'd use to share data between different physical machines.
> >
> > A guest domain is in most respects comparable to a physical machine,
> > except that it shares the actual physical resources with all the other
> > domains running on the physical machine.
> >
> > > Would appreciate it if someone could give me some advice.
> >
> > I personally use NFS to share a few filesystems between domains:
> > - backup (to store all the backups to so i can write them to DVD inside
> > Domain-0)
> > - portage + distfiles (to avoid having to download this multiple times,
> > these are for the Gentoo package manager, portage)
> >
> > But any other Network Filesystem should work as well.
> >
> > --
> > Joost
>
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